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A 22-Year-Old Founder Wants to Build the Moon’s First Hotel by 2032

Skyler Chan launched GRU last year. Courtesy GRU Space Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making...

yesterday 5

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

A Solo Stay at Turtle Island, Fiji’s Romantic Couples-Only Resort

Turtle Island. Tanveer Badal As I stood on the dock in Nadi, staring at the tiny hopper plane that I was about to board, I couldn’t help but wonder...

yesterday 5

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Allie Lebos

Mexico City, Doha or L.A.? The Answer Depends on What You’re Looking For

These very different art ecosystems serve very different audiences. Courtesy ZONAMACO This year, there’s no shortage of warm-weather art world...

yesterday 3

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Elisa Carollo

Meet the Collectors: Carl Gambino and Sara Ivory Refuse to Play the Market Game

Carl Gambino and Sarah Ivory at home, where collecting is inseparable from daily life. Painting by Sholto Blissett | Photo: Gloria Kilbourne The...

yesterday 2

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Elisa Carollo

The Business of Category Creation, According to Simon Kim

Gracious Hospitality founder Simon Kim reflects on leadership, longevity and the evolution of modern hospitality. Gary He This Q&A is part of...

yesterday 2

Observer

Sonia Rubeck

An Elevated Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for the Man Who Has Everything

Finding the right Valentine’s Day present can pose a challenge for even the most accomplished of gift-givers. You don't want to veer into cheesy...

yesterday 20

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Morgan Halberg

Meet the Collectors: Carl Gambino and Sarah Ivory Refuse to Play the Market Game

"It’s about the pleasure of living with art—wanting the work around you, every day, as part of your life," Gambino told Observer. 

yesterday 1

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Elisa Carollo

Wall-to-Wall Cultural Capital: Inside Observer’s Art Power Index Party

Under the dim lights of a chic Lower East Side venue, art world luminaries gathered to celebrate Observer's Art Power Index—and each other. From...

yesterday 1

Observer

Olivia Empson

Museum Educator Sierra Schiano On the Structural Pressures Behind LACMA’s Union Vote

She described long-standing issues—from understaffing to opaque decision-making—that gradually pushed them toward unionization.

yesterday 1

Observer

Dan Duray

Could Rococo’s Relatability Make It the Next Big Thing?

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The happy family, called Young couple contemplating a sleeping child, or The return home, or The reconciliation. Oil on...

previous day 5

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Elisa Carollo

The New Museum Will Reopen on March 21 With Massimiliano Gioni’s “New Humans”

A rendering of the New Museum’s expansion. Courtesy of the New Museum We expected it to open last fall. Then came months of silence. Now, at last,...

previous day 10

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Elisa Carollo

L.A.’s January Restaurant Openings Set the Tone for 2026

January is a month of fresh starts and new beginnings, so what better way to kick off 2026 than with a few can’t-miss restaurant openings? As Los...

previous day 3

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Allie Lebos

Win at the Tables by Dining at the Best New Las Vegas Restaurants

Las Vegas is in the middle of an over-the-top dining makeover, and the biggest players here aren’t content with just playing their greatest hits....

previous day 5

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Andy Wang

From Farm Boy to Billionaire, Glen Taylor Gives $100M Back to Rural America

Glen Taylor attends a Minnesota Timberwolves game on March 31, 2024. Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Glen Taylor, the founder of printing...

previous day 6

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

The Most Important Art Biennials of 2026

There is broad consensus across the art world that since the early 2000s, there has been a global proliferation of biennials—the so-called...

previous day 6

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Elisa Carollo

Shirley Crutchfield’s Gilded Second Act

Shirley Yang Crutchfield, Queens Triumvirate, 2025. 24K gold leaf, 22K moon gold, 12K white gold and oil on wood, 24 x 26 in. Courtesy of the...

previous day 5

Observer

Xinyi Ye

Elon Musk’s Grok Hit With Bans and Regulatory Probes Worldwide

A post by Elon Musk on the X app, showing an A.I. prompt-created Grok image depicting Musk wearing a bikini. Leon Neal/Getty Images Grok, the A.I....

previous day 7

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Rachel Curry

Bill Gates’ Optimism Comes With ‘Footnotes’ After a Tough Year for the World

In a sobering annual message, Bill Gates warns that global aid cuts and unchecked A.I. could derail progress. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los...

monday 10

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

How Nathan Cornwell Is Putting Chiswick on London’s Culinary Map

Nathan Cornwell. Rebecca Dickson Tourists don’t often venture to Chiswick, a west London neighborhood with a charming communal feel, because it...

monday 2

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Emily Zemler

Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Reveals the Simple Secret of Her Successful Turnaround

Fran Horowitz, a former executive at Express Inc. and Ann Taylor Loft, joined Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014. Patrick MacLeod/WWD/Penske Media via...

monday 20

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

The Luxurious Valentine’s Day Gifts for Her That Rise Above the Clichés

If you haven't started the search for a Valentine's Day gift just yet, it's time to get on that—ASAP. February 14 is just around the corner, and...

monday 3

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Morgan Halberg

From Surrealism to Séances: The Art World’s Spiritual Turn

As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward...

monday 1

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Elisa Carollo

The Longevity Gap: How Aging Research Leaves Women Behind

As longevity shifts to A.I. and predictive health, male-biased data risks repeating old inequities at scale. Unsplash Longevity has become one of...

monday 5

Observer

Priyanka Jain And Kayla Barnes-Lentz

In Jeffrey Gibson’s “An Indigenous Present,” Native Art Beyond Representationalism

George Longfish, I Will Never Be the Same When I Leave My Father’s Lodge, 1978-82. Courtesy The Fine Arts Collection, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti...

monday 3

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Petala Ironcloud

How a Small Uruguayan Town Became a Seasonal Hub for Latin American Art

Este Arte’s deliberately small scale has helped position the fair as an early bellwether for Latin America’s contemporary art market. Courtesy Este...

monday 3

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Mercedes Ezquiaga

Nuclear Fusion Energy’s Long Promised Future Starts to Look Commercially Real

Type One Energy plans to build a fusion power plan on the site of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run coal-fired power plant in Oak Ridge,...

monday 3

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Ray Fernandez

The Best Fashion Moments From the 2026 Golden Globes Red Carpet

Amanda Seyfried. WireImage You might still be easing into 2026, but awards season is already out in full force. In a twist from the usual schedule,...

11.01.2026 4

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Morgan Halberg

At 93, Joan Semmel Continues to Assert the Female Gaze

Transitions (2012) by Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum in New York. Photo: Fred Voon for Observer In 1973, when no gallery in New York would show...

10.01.2026 2

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Fred Voon

Christie’s Bets Big on the New Memorabilia Economy With the Jim Irsay Collection

Christie’s will offer hundreds of incredible objects from The Jim Irsay Collection in a series of sales in March 2026. Max Touhey |...

09.01.2026 4

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Elisa Carollo

In an A.I.-Driven World, Storytelling Is Becoming Leadership’s Most Critical Skill

From hybrid work to A.I.-generated messaging, narrative is now how leaders create coherence and credibility. Unsplash In an era where algorithms...

09.01.2026 2

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Zoe Arden

Trains of Thought: Yunghun Yoo’s Paintings of Connection and Parting at 839 Gallery

Exit Wound portrays the carnage left by a gunshot as landscape, with the flesh splintering and twining into horizon lines. Photographed by Kyle...

09.01.2026 2

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Mya Ward

How the World’s Top Companies Use Experimentation to Outlearn Uncertainty

From Airbnb and Booking.com to Amazon and Google, leading companies show how disciplined experimentation turns uncertainty into advantage. Unsplash...

09.01.2026 3

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Paul Sloane